[ntp:questions] Local clock - sync issue

Stephen Vaughan Stephen.Vaughan at blackboard.com
Wed Nov 10 14:58:28 UTC 2010


I don't know tbh, all I know is there are occasionally network dropouts.

Cheers,
Stephen


-----Original Message-----
From: questions-bounces+stephen.vaughan=blackboard.com at lists.ntp.org [mailto:questions-bounces+stephen.vaughan=blackboard.com at lists.ntp.org] On Behalf Of David Woolley
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 5:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Local clock - sync issue

Stephen Vaughan wrote:
> I'm talking about weeks at a time.
>
> Network connectivity goes down, ntp reverts to LOCAL clock, then if you look at the logs and check ntpq, it remains bound to the LOCAL clock, several weeks after the connectivity went down. A simple restart of ntpd brings the external clocks back online.

Do you, by any chance, have an unstable IP address?  Some ISPs generate
these.  One theories is that it is to break attempts to run servers.

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